Character Quote by Tullian Tchividjian

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though…

— Phil Ochs

“I recently read in the Wall Street Journal an article by Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi. Among other things, he writes: … ‘There are…

— Thomas S. Monson

“We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be “taught a lesson,” when we really want to punish. We were depressed and…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is…

— Charles Murray

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is…

— Penn Jillette

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

— Max Lucado

“We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand…

— Dennis Prager

Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to…

— Anonymous

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for…

— Marianne Williamson

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of…

— Vincent Van Gogh